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Google threatens to block searches in Australia over news code

by German Press Agency - DPA

Sydney Jan 22, 2021 - 1:37 pm GMT+3
A link to Google's proposal for a workable news code on the company's homepage, arranged on an iPhone in Sydney, Australia, Jan. 22, 2021. (Getty Images)
A link to Google's proposal for a workable news code on the company's homepage, arranged on an iPhone in Sydney, Australia, Jan. 22, 2021. (Getty Images)
by German Press Agency - DPA Jan 22, 2021 1:37 pm
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Google threatened to block access to its search engine from Australia on Friday over a media code that would require the tech giant to pay for news content – a code that is considered a world first.

Mel Silva, managing director for Google's Australian operations, told a Senate inquiry the code was unworkable and the company was unable to calculate the financial risk, news agency AAP reported.

Leaving the Australian market is the "only rational choice if this law were to pass," she said.

The news media bargaining code bill was introduced into Australia's parliament in December.

If passed, it will force tech companies to pay news outlets for their content or face fines of up to AU$10 million ($7.7 million), according to AAP.

The code would initially apply to Facebook NewsFeed and Google Search.

Also on Friday, Google published a video and letter addressing Australian users in a campaign against the news code.

Silva compared paying news outlets for displaying links to their content to recommending coffee shops to a friend and then being billed by the coffee shops for mentioning them.

"When you put a price on linking to certain information, you break the way that search engines work and you no longer have a free and open web," Silva said.

The company wants to pay publishers through its Google News Showcase program rather than for links. Nearly 200 publications have signed deals with the program, Google said.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission developed the code.

Its chief Rod Sims told the Senate inquiry that without the news code, the balance of power is too far in favor of tech companies and allows them to offer "take it or leave it deals."

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison hit back at the comments. "Australia makes our rules for things you can do in Australia," he told reporters.

"That's done in our parliament. It's done by our government. We don't respond to threats," he said.

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